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r/EngineeringManagers rules, stats, and what to post
A source-backed Rankhog guide to r/EngineeringManagers: public rules, community context, posting fit, and startup-promotion risk before you publish.
- Members
- 37,573
- Community age
- Created Jan 2018, 8 years
- To post
- No minimum in the rules
- To comment
- No minimum in the rules
- Self-promotion
- Banned
- Links
- Not mentioned in the rules
- Promo risk
- HighFrom the rules, not from removal counts
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| Subreddit | Members | Karma to post | Self-promo |
|---|---|---|---|
| r/managers | 293.3K | None listed | Banned |
| r/Target | 233.3K | None listed | Not listed |
| r/Leadership | 149.2K | None listed | Banned |
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Rule summary
- No political posts: This community is focused on engineering management. Political discussions are off-topic and tend to derail productive conversation.
- No low-effort posts: Posts must include enough context to enable meaningful discussion. Vague questions, contextless reposts, and “what do you think about X” posts without substance will be removed.
- No product promotion: This sub is for exchanging knowledge, not marketing. Posts promoting products, services, tools, newsletters, or courses will be removed regardless of relevance.
- No unsolicited surveys: Surveys and research solicitation require mod approval before posting. Only academic research surveys will be considered. Commercial and informal surveys will be removed.
- Be professional and constructive: This is a community for engineering managers at every level, from new leads to VPs. Treat others with respect. Debate ideas, not people.
- Stay on topic: Posts must relate to engineering management: people leadership, team dynamics, delivery, org design, or career development. Generic tech, coding, or unrelated posts belong elsewhere.
Works well
- A detailed story about a real team problem you faced as a manager or founder, what you tried, and what you learned, written with enough background that others can weigh in.
- A focused question about a specific management situation, like handling a performance conversation or a delivery slip, with the full context spelled out.
- A lesson learned post about hiring, feedback, or keeping engineers motivated, based on your own experience and written to help others.
- A career development question from someone stepping into their first lead role, with the details of the situation included.
Avoid
- Posting about your product, service, tool, newsletter, or course, even if it seems relevant to engineering managers.
- Asking vague questions like what do you think about performance reviews with no context behind them.
- Sharing a survey of any kind without getting moderator approval first.
- Starting political arguments in the comments or in your post.
- Posting generic tech or coding content that has nothing to do with leading people.
- Being snarky or dismissive toward someone with less management experience than you.
What r/EngineeringManagers Is For
This is a community for engineering managers, from brand new team leads all the way up to vice presidents. The public description says it plainly, people come here to exchange ideas on how to build great, healthy teams and keep their members happy and motivated. So the room is about the human side of running engineering groups, things like people leadership, team dynamics, delivery, org design, and career development. The rules confirm that generic tech talk, coding questions, and anything unrelated to managing engineers belongs somewhere else. Who posts here, based on the rules, is managers at every level who want serious, constructive conversation, not casual browsing.
Rules That Matter Before Posting
The big one for any founder is “No product promotion”. The rule and the moderator one liner are explicit that posts promoting products, services, tools, newsletters, or courses are removed regardless of relevance, so even a helpful mention of your own thing counts as promotion here. “No low-effort posts” is the second gate, because vague questions and contextless posts get removed, and that catches a lot of people who post a one line question hoping for engagement. “No unsolicited surveys” matters if you were thinking of asking managers to fill in a form, since surveys and research solicitation need mod approval before posting and only academic research surveys are considered. “Stay on topic” keeps the room focused on people leadership, team dynamics, delivery, org design, and career development, so a generic startup or coding post does not belong. “Be professional and constructive” sets the tone for how you argue, and “No political posts” removes one whole category of derailment you should never touch.
What To Post
Think of this as a place to give before you ever think of taking. A good post from a founder is a detailed, first hand story or question about leading engineers, told with enough context that managers can actually respond. For example, describe a real team problem you ran into, what you tried, and what happened, then ask a focused question. Or share a lesson about hiring, feedback, delivery, or keeping engineers motivated, written from your own experience with no product attached. The rules reward substance, so background and specifics are what keep your post alive. The moderator one liner sums it up well, they remove low effort questions, so always add detailed context and background before you hit post.
What To Avoid
Any promotion of a product, service, tool, newsletter, or course will get your post removed, and the rule says this applies regardless of relevance, so there is no clever workaround. Low effort posts get removed too, meaning vague questions, contextless reposts, and shallow what do you think about X posts with no substance. Surveys and research solicitation are removed unless a moderator approved them first, and commercial surveys will not be considered at all, only academic ones. Political posts are off topic and removed. Anything outside engineering management, like generic tech or coding content, belongs elsewhere. And unprofessional or disrespectful behavior goes against the tone the community asks for.
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Common questions about r/EngineeringManagers
Can I mention my product if it solves a problem managers discuss here?
No. The community states it is for exchanging knowledge, not marketing, and posts promoting products or services get removed.
Can I run a survey here to learn what managers want?
No. Only academic research surveys will be considered, and any survey or research solicitation needs moderator approval before you post it.
Can I ask for career advice as a founder who now manages engineers?
Yes. Career development is one of the on topic areas, but include your real situation and enough detail that people can give useful answers.
Is a pure engineering or coding question okay?
Not on its own. Posts must relate to engineering management, so you would need to frame it around people leadership, team dynamics, delivery, org design, or career development.
Will a link in my post get me removed?
It does not say, but the safe move is to keep any link out of the post and let the substance of your question carry it.
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